Suspect In Deadly Eufaula Bank Robbery Released From Prison By Mistake

<p>The suspect in a robbery in which an Oklahoma bank president was fatally shot had been released from a Texas prison by mistake in March 2012.</p>

Saturday, January 23rd 2016, 2:56 pm

By: News On 6


The suspect in a robbery in which an Oklahoma bank president was fatally shot had been released from a Texas prison by mistake.

The Oklahoman reports that records show Cedric Lamont Norris had been allowed to leave the Texas prison in March 2012 despite still needing to complete prison sentences of 60 years and 10 years in Oklahoma.

Norris died during a shootout with police following the robbery Thursday at the Bank of Eufaula in eastern Oklahoma.

Norris was arrested in February 2005 in Dallas after jewelry store robberies in Oklahoma and Texas. In December of that year, he was moved to Tulsa County and then Creek County, both in Oklahoma, for trials.

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He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a Tulsa jewelry store robbery and 60 years for a robbery in Sapulpa. He was picked up from the Tulsa County jail in 2007, after the trials, and returned to Texas to serve prison time there.

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